General Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon (Jack), GCFR, Nigeria’s former Military Head of State (1966 – 1975) is seldom available. Not in the sense of foreign trips; he is enmeshed in innumerable engagements in the good interest of the nation. At 76, the former ruler is often oblivious of the natural call for the required rest an […]
Fresh facts have emerged on why the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) is after the militant leader, General John Togo. Intelligence sources said the on-going military operation by the JTF was provoked by John Togo, who gave the impression that he was willing to surrender but was actually erecting new camps. Also Togo was said […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will lead a high powered Federal Government delegation to the burial of Mrs Victoria Mimidoo Katsina-Alu, wife of the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Aloysius Katsina Alu at the country home of the Chief Justice at Tse-Alu, Mbayem, Ushongo local council of Benue State today. In an interview with The Guardian […]
Last week, when the Federal Government and, indeed, Nigerians marked the first anniversary of the death of the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, not many knew that for the family, there was not much to cheer about the former number one citizen of the country. This is so because he did not leave anything, in […]
By the time cases at election petitions tribunals are determined, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will invoke a section in the amended Electoral Act to deregister more than 50 political parties, Saturday Sun can authoritatively reveal. When this provision is invoked, only 10 political parties would survive. Part V, Section 7 of the Electoral […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has thanked the people of the South East for massively voting for him during the just concluded Presidential election.Jonathan, at a one-day rally in Owerri on Friday, however, said the support and votes for him as President cannot be complete if the governors of the zone are not carried along in the […]
The crisis of confidence rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) might be far from over as a group of Niger Delta youths calling for the removal of key officers of the commission pointed the finger at federal lawmakers from the South-south as being the brain behind the incessant bickering among the commission’s directors. Specifically, […]
The Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, yesterday ordered commissioners of police (CPs) in states affected by election violence, including Bauchi, Gombe, Kaduna, Borno, Kano and Katsina to appear and give evidence before the panel of inquiry set up to investigate the crisis by the Federal Government. He mandated CPs of the affected states of the […]
Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, CJN The Presidential Election Tribunal will hold its inaugural sitting in Abuja next Tuesday, THISDAY has learnt. A senior counsel, who is one of the lawyers engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said the inaugural sitting should have taken place Wednesday. The shift in the commencement of the tribunal’s sitting […]
A former Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Lawal, and his alleged accomplice, Dr. Adeogba Ademola, were on Wednesday sent back to prison custody on the orders of Justice Bilikisu Aliyu of a Federal High Court in Abuja, pending the determination of their bail applications. The court also ordered that the representatives of the companies […]
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